Nevertheless, it looked well, and I highly approved the capon and maize cakes, the venison pasty and ale, with which the table was set.

Through the open doors of the two other rooms were to be seen more rushes, more flowers, and more lights.
To the larger of these rooms I now led the way, deposited her bundle upon the settle, and saw that Diccon had provided fair water for her face and hands; which done, I told her that supper waited upon her convenience, and went back to the great room.
She was long in coming, so long that I grew impatient and went to call her.

The door was ajar, and so I saw her, kneeling in the middle of the floor, her head thrown back, her hands raised and clasped, on her face terror and anguish of spirit written so large that I started to see it.
I stared in amazement, and, had I followed my first impulse, would have gone to her, as I would have gone to any other creature in so dire distress.

On second thoughts, I went noiselessly back to my station in the great room.

She had not seen me, I was sure.